Re: [Help-smalltalk] Roadmap for GST and VisualGST

[Holger Hans Peter Freyther]

On Mon, Mar 25, 2013 at 04:06:15PM +0100, Holger Hans Peter Freyther wrote:
> === FileOut ===
> * With the new dir package I would like to have a Package fileOut which
>   writes out modifications to the existing files. E.g. 'edit' them in place.
> * Keep track of where a subclass comes from.. load the lines to RAM.. and
>   then replace them at the right place. This way the order and formatting
>   could be left as it was.
> 
> === Changes ===
> * Keep a Journal and create nice UI to replay them. Also remember the
>   source of the operation (e.g. Object subclass: #Bla in a workspace should
>   be tracked differently to the one done in VisualGST).

I think I have concluded on how we could do these things nicely. GST-Changes
or such would create one git-repository per package[1] and use the FileTree/
Cypres format[2] in it.

Modifications to Classes.. would result in file operations in the package
in the package (git add, git rm, git mv). We would also have the option to
make a snapshot (un-named auto-commit), commit (some real work done).

Then we could and should have tools (like gst-convert) to convert from file
tree to another form of fileout and we could have the more clever fileout
I was hoping for (to replace the text in place).

comments? ideas?

        holger



[1] This might mean we need a way to go from CompiledMethod to package or
use heuristic based on the category name and available packages.

[2] A class is a directory, selectors are files, properties for
namespace and instance variables. https://github.com/CampSmalltalk/Cypress